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tuliano

Hello, i had 1777 points with the chess mentor (the 20 first free trainings) and Yesterday i payed the premium membership for the first time and when i started the chess mentor again it puts only problems with 800 points, the rules of chess and how to play... How can i do to change it?. the first ones i played quickly without reading what it were asking me and i lost 70 points.

 

sorry for my english.

cshuenss

no way to change it,I'm sorry

baddogno

Forget all that adaptive/sequential nonsense; just pick out a course that interests you and try it.  The points are pretty much rubbish as well, they're just an incentive to study and a way to track your progress.  The newest courses are usually those that take best advantage of the format and really explain why a wrong answer is wrong.  There are some oldies but goodies as well though.

EDIT Oh wait, maybe you have to be a diamond member to do that.  If so my apologies....

pinik

Juli, aprende a jugar manco!!!

Knightberry

I don't like the fact correct answers on CM yield 0 or 1 points, but if you even just play an alternative correct move (gray), you may lose 5-9 points regardless of doing nothing wrong.

It will even say you got things "88%" correct even if you just played an alternative correct move, then the 'required' correct move thereafter, instead of 100%.

PhoenixTTD

If you just play an alternative move it should not lower your score.  Taking hints, opening the analysis board, using key squares, key pieces, correct square or correct piece will lower your score.  In the mentor home there is an option to reset to 1200 and erase your progress.  However a few hiccups in the lower rated lessons are not that big of a deal.  Your score will balance out eventually.  I agree with the advise to work thru a course rather than doing the adaptive.

Knightberry
PhoenixTTD wrote:

If you just play an alternative move it should not lower your score.  Taking hints, opening the analysis board, using key squares, key pieces, correct square or correct piece will lower your score.  In the mentor home there is an option to reset to 1200 and erase your progress.  However a few hiccups in the lower rated lessons are not that big of a deal.  Your score will balance out eventually.  I agree with the advise to work thru a course rather than doing the adaptive.

I switched to sequential instead of adaptive, and it does seem more interesting. But the downside is that in absolute lessons (such as certain openings) it will only accept the book solution, even if there are 3 or even 4 alternative correct ones.

 

If you deviate by just one move despite being orthodox, you lose points. Having to regularly click on 'correct square' on these is probably not very conductive to learning; Let's take an example. How can you learn the Orangutan opening and at the same time know it move by move 8-9 moves deep? Punishing the user for not knowing the exact flow of irregular openings seems a bit comical. It's not about points, it's about learning.

baddogno

Of course it's "cheating", but there is nothing that says you can't have a database open at the same time that you're using Chess Mentor.  It's possible that I might have done that once or twice...Wink